Tag: School

Stopping the [doom]scroll

Neerja Singh
How does endless scrolling affect children’s focus, learning, and emotions? Neerja Singh shares some digital habits that can encourage deep learning in the age of short-form content.

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The lonely whiz kid

Anuradha C
Arjun is a 11-year-old genius who dazzles adults with his intellect but struggles to navigate childhood friendships. Can the digital world ever replace the warmth of real connections? Anuradha C answers.

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The conflict tapestry

Kalpana Sharma
What do schools and orchestras have in common? Both thrive on harmony, collaboration, and understanding. Read Kalpana Sharma’s piece on how schools can teach us to listen and resolve conflicts meaningfully.

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Why India’s schools must be fundamentally redesigned

Sandeep Rai
In this piece we ask The Circle to share their experience of co-designing new kinds of schools in their fellowship program. What are we changing and with what intent, how are their fellows articulating impact and how are these ideas translating into actionable programs.

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Design in Indian schools

Pawan Pagaria
There is no one way of approaching design in education and Pawan Pagaria has had his fair share of experiments with an attempt to make it work. Frameworks, workshops, games, textbooks, he has tried it all. In this contribution, we ask him to share how he applies design to crack design in education and how far he has come.

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Every child can: Riverside school’s design-led approach to empowering children

Kiran Bir Sethi
What does it take to ‘design’ a school, curriculum, business and society? We take a look at the journey of designer and educator Kiran Bir Sethi and understand her position on design in education and the impetus for founding initiatives like Design for Change. Her journey, with design as a primary vehicle, across expanding domains of creative practice helps us understand design as a social project. This piece also looks at how and why design permeates into the day-to-day of The Riverside School she set up in Ahmedabad and what her advice is for schools that want to facilitate design in education.

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